Baptist Church, Whytescauseway, Kirkcaldy

The Baptist Church on Whytescauseway in Kirkcaldy was built in 1854 and features a box church design with Tudor details and a small spirelet fleche. The structure has a three-bay aisless nave with canted side chapels to the east. It is constructed of ashlar stone with coursed rubble and dressed quoins on the sides and rear. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a moulded string course, and a cornice on the west side, as well as an eaves course. The church has pointed-arch openings with hoodmoulds, stone mullions, and chamfered reveals.

The west elevation is a symmetrical gable front, featuring a deeply moulded doorway at the center with a hoodmould, trefoil detail in the spandrels, and a decorative cast-iron lamp bracket. Flanking the doorway are hoodmoulded lancets, and there is a raised three-light window in the gablehead.

At the center of the roof ridge is a three-stage fleche topped with a finial. It has a tall, battered plinth, with the second stage louvered, leading to a spire that has gablets on each face and a decorative cast-iron finial.

The south elevation includes three windows on the left and a polygonal-roofed canted bay on the outer right, featuring a traceried window on the projecting face and smaller windows on the returns. There is also a low flat-roofed extension on the outer right. The north elevation mirrors the south elevation.

The church features multi-pane leaded glazing with colored margins and is covered with grey slates. It has a coped ashlar stack and ashlar-coped skews.

Inside, the church has pointed-arch openings, a panelled ceiling with plain cornicing, decorative bosses, and air vents. The window margins feature decorative plasterwork, and there is boarded dado panelling. The vestibule has stairs on both the right and left, along with a decorative cast-iron and timber war memorial. The interior includes timber bench pews and two cast-iron columns with floreate capitals that support a gallery with carved panels at the front and a clock at the center. The pews are raked, and decorative cast-iron window guards are present. The raised chancel area features a broad pulpit with a sounding board carved with blind arcading, a traceried stained glass memorial window above, a flanking pipe organ with the console to the left, and broad arched side chapels.